Martin F. Manalansan IV is the Beverly & Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts and Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He has taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, University of the Philippines, New York University, New School University, Wesleyan University, and the City University of New York.

As a cultural anthropologist, he is interested in the ethnographic study of the small, the fleeting, the contingent, and the "infra-ordinary."...